[Python-Dev] req: Software Carpentry / coding standards

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> Yay!  This is a wonderful competition, and if nobody yet has bothered to
> thank you for spearheading it, let me know & I'll find someone who will
> <wink>.

Yeah, what he said. :)

> The only serious attempt at a Python style guide I've seen is Guido's:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html

I love this style guide.  I know it's a strange reaction to
have to a style guide, but i agree with basically everything
in it, which is probably pretty rare for these sorts of things.

> + No hard tabs.  Indents are 4 spaces, period.

Tab characters are the work of the devil.


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